A Brief Guide to the Harlem RenaissanceWhen considering essential movements in American poetry, no conversation would be complete without a discussion of the Harlem Renaissance. With a lyricism seated in the popular blues and jazz music of the time, an awareness of black life in America, its assertion of an independent African American identity, and its innovation in form and structure, the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance is unmistakable.
“A Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance.” Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, 4 May 2004, www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-harlem-renaissance.